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Revision as of 05:49, 30 November 2018

The witches' guild is a gathering of crones and hags, biddies and busybodies, pagans and practitioners of the occult. Members of this guild are well versed in occult spellcasting, the preparation of potions, and the mysterious and womanly art of 'headology'.

You might be redirected here if you are looking for the list of NPC witches. You might also be interested in the list of witch cottages.

Joining the guild

Prospective witches may join the guild by speaking politely to Granny Weatherwax in Bad Ass, or Aunty Ogg-San in Bes Pelargic

Granny considers sexual equality as something that happens to other people (usually Nanny Ogg), therefore she will only permit women to join the guild.

Locations

The witches guild is to be found in the witches cottages scattered about the disc. These cottages are generally concentrated in the Ramtops area of the disc; however, there is at least one cottage in most major cities. There are also witches sellings goods or services all over.

Area City or area Cottage or venue Witch Notes
Sto Plains Ankh-Morpork Gennie Applebottom's cottage Gennie Applebottom Garden, safe room, bandage, taliswoman
Sto Plains Scrogden Ethel Applebaum's cottage Ethel Applebaum Garden, teaches blinking squint, hints for potions
Sto Plains Sto Lat Mum Blithesome's cottage Mum Blithesome Garden, teaches peering squint, beehive, taliswoman
Sto Plains Skund Forest near Hillshire Gingerbread cottage None Broomstick, basket of poisoned apples
Counterweight Continent Bes Pelargic Aunty Ogg-San's hut Old Aunty Ogg-San Joining, Spells, crate
Counterweight Continent Bes Pelargic Dimly lit house on Gate Avenue None Garden
Counterweight Continent Bes Pelargic Mama Diksha's stall Mama Diksha Garden, teaches winking squint, Commands, sells witch supplies
Counterweight Continent Bes Pelargic / McSweeney Estate Conservatory & Distillery Tue Fluffy Panda Garden
Klatch Djelibeybi Witch caravan Lip-bibh-khin and Khin-bin-lap Teaches squinching squint, taliswoman
Ramtops Bad Ass Granny Weatherwax's cottage Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg outside Joining, Spells, Commands (Nanny), Garden, chest, beehives
Ramtops Brass Neck Annie Spindlewits' cottage Annie Spindlewits Garden
Ramtops Lancre Town Nanny Ogg's cottage Nanny Ogg is at Granny's Cottage There's some scumble in Nanny's cottage and a note on distilling it. Nanny Ogg teaches commands and Hedgehog, but at Granny's.
Ramtops Lancre Town Nora Bodgett's stall Nora Bodgett Sells witch supplies
Ramtops Mad Stoat Agnes Nitt's cottage Agnes Nitt Garden, teaches glancing squint, beehives, notes on tricks
Ramtops Ohulan Cutash Hilta Goatfounder's stall Hilta Goatfounder Sells witch supplies, safe room
Ramtops Razorback Gammer Nudity's cottage Mad Gammer Nudity Teaches ogling squint
Ramtops Razorback Elmira's cottage Elmira Custom giant fruitbat clothing
Ramtops Slice Millie Hopgood's cottage Millie Hopgood Garden, teaches squinting and eyeing and scathing squints, beehives, sugar press
Ramtops Slippery Hollow Agnetha Phedre's cottage Agnetha Phedre Garden, books on the Hollow and the Rider
Ramtops Mad Wolf  Wee Flaudia's cottage Wee Flaudia Garden, beehives, teaches Wee Flaudia's Fluffy Earmuffs if you don't have tricks
Uberwald Forest near Escrow Crow-legged cottage None Dried herbs, (poisoned) green billet apples
Vieux River Genua Mamie Olivia's shadowy tent Mamie Olivia Turns corpses into zombies
Vieux River Genua Mrs Gogol's low tent Mrs Gogol Raise Dead, taliswoman

The largest and most well-equipped of these cottages is Granny Weatherwax's cottage in Bad Ass.

The back room of Hilta Goatfounder's stall and the cellar of Gennie Applebottom's cottage can only be entered by witches.

The chest at Granny's and crate at Aunty Ogg-San's allow witches to put and retrieve items that will save on reboots.

Subdivisions

Unique amongst all guilds, the witches guild does not have any subdivisions - all witches are simply 'members of the witches guild'.

Titles and rank

The following titles can be used by witches who ask Granny nicely about them: Aunty, Biddy, Black, Gammer, Goodie, Goody, Gramma, Granny, Mama, Mistress, Mother, Mss, Nanna, Nanny, Old, Sister, Wee, Wicked and Young.

Unlike other guilds, witches do not have ranks based on guild levels. All witches are simply listed as '<player> the Witch'. An indication of a witch's guild level can, however, be determined by looking at her - a witch gains one wart for every 10 guild levels they possess.

As a general rule, witches eschew rank and levels - this is famously exemplified by Granny Weatherwax, who has no warts (despite her best efforts...) and is, in her own words "level one"[1]...

Politics

Granny's in charge, and she takes care to ensure everyone knows it. There is no player-based hierarchy or privileges, there are no elections.

Every once in a while are held the Witch Trials, an event where all witches are invited to come and show some tricks they've been preparing. Lately there has been other types of performances like mocks and fruitbat competition.

Abilities

Witches have a wide variety of guild-specific abilities available to them:

Magic

Witches are magic users, capable of casting their own magical spells in similar fashion to the wizards. Witch magic tends to be less combat-oriented than wizard magic: there are a handful of offensive/defensive witch spells and a large selection of miscellaneous spells.

Unlike wizard magic, witch spells can only be cast by witches. Witches acquire magic spells by asking Granny Weatherwax or Aunty Ogg-San to teach them, or by educing them from a hag stone.

Potions

Witches can brew a variety of potions, with effects ranging from healing the drinker to curing them of their ailments. Potions are commonly sold by witches to player shops, and form a major portion of most witches' income.

Travelling

Novice witches may ask Gennie Applebottom in Ankh-Morpork for a Taliswoman. This item allows witches up to level 20 to transport themselves between Ankh-Morpork and Granny Weatherwax's Cottage. Experienced witches have their own special means of transportation, the broomstick, with which they can fly to remembered locations, players and named unique NPCs.

Magick Crystals

Witches can imbue certain spells into magick crystals. These crystals will then confer benefits similar to (but not necessarily the same as) the spell in question onto whosoever wears them.

Squints

Witches can squint at others, causing a variety of effects from damage to encouragement to uncertainty.

Commands

The following are the commands available exclusively to members of this guild:

Many commands like fade are acquired automagically when increasing some skills.

The squint command is taught by Millie Hopgood in Slice, with methods taught by several witches.

The Hedgehog command is taught by Nanny Ogg at Granny Weatherwax's cottage, but you'll need to loosen her tongue a bit first.

Other commands like circle, gaze or imbue can be learned from Nanny Ogg at Granny Weatherwax's cottage or from Mama Diksha on the heap above Ming Lane in Bes Pelargic.

It is best to ask once in a while in case you can learn new commands.
It is unclear if commands learned this way could have appeared on their own when increasing skills and vice versa.  research If this has been marked on a page, it's because there was something that probably isn't known, that the person who edited the page thinks could be found out. Perhaps you could figure this thing out, and be famous evermore. 

While not a witch only command, bandage can be taught by Gennie Applebottom when someone hurt is in the room.

Witches can also "glare at <fire furniture>" to light it up.

Spells

All witch spells are taught by Granny Weatherwax in her cottage in Bad Ass and by Aunty Ogg-San in her house in Bes Pelargic.

Jorodin's Magnificent Communicator is an exception: it is a weird spell that can be learned by educing a hag stone sold by Jorodin. It is not taught by Granny.

The following are the spells that can be memorized by members of this guild.

Offensive

Defensive

Misc

For a table with more information on the spells see witch spells.

Primaries

The following are the primary skills for this guild:

Miscellany

External links

Archived sites

Notes

  1. Lords and Ladies
  2. This command can actually be learned by everyone but it is only of use to witches and wizards.